Autotrophic ammonia oxidation by soil thaumarchaea

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 17240-17245

  Zhang, Li Mei ^a,b   Offre, Pierre R ^a,c   He, Ji Zheng ^b   Verhamme, Daniel T ^a   Nicol, Graeme W ^a   Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizers; Autotrophy; Nitrification; Soil; Stable isotope probing

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; AMMONIA; HYDRACRYLIC ACID;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPH; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78049282340     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004947107     Document Type: Article

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